Mine-car check-holder.



No. 634,049. Patented Oct. 3, I899.

0.3. WILLIAMS.

IIINE GAR CHECK HOLDER.

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MINE OAR rim-:cx HOLDER.

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PATENT OFFICE.

UNITED STATES CHARLES R. WILLIAMS, OF GEORGEL, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO O. W. SHAFER, OF LANDGRAFF, WEST VIRGINIA;

,.MlNE.-CAR CHECK-HOlsDER.

sPnoIFIcATIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,049, dated October 3, 1899. Application filed November 30, 1898 Elerial No. 697,907. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..- v

Be it known that I, CHARLES R.WILL1AMs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Georgel, in the county of Wise and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Mine-Car Check-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention'relates to a check-holder and display device for use in connection with mine-cars; and the object in view is to provide aholder of such aconstruction that when a number oridentifying-check, such as those 1 employed by miners to designate cars con-; taining material for which they desire credit, is placed therein the surreptitious or frauduq lent removal or substitution of the check is prevented and the check which has originally 1 been placed therein is released only when the car reaches the tipple and is thrown into a' discharging position. I

I \k a lVhen a miner, as A, is about to commence work, he is furnished by the oflice with a num ber of checks bearing corresponding 11 u mbe'rs i or designating characters diiierent from those of the checks furnished other miners, and. this character is credited, with the name of the miner, on the books of theofiice, and each car of coal or other mined material filled by. A is designated by attaching thereto one of these identifying-checks, whereby when the car reaches the surface the tipple-man or the: person employed forthat purpose notes the check on the carand credits the miner designated by that check with one ear-load. 01 dinarily each car is provided inside and at a point below the upper edgesof its walls with. a hook, upon which one of these checks is. hung before the car is filled, whereby when filled the coal or other material covers the check, with the object that the car. must be emptied to discover the check. Dishonest miners, however, surreptitiously gaining access to a filled car having the check of another miner attached thereto displace enough of the contents of the car to discover the check and substitute his own, as'that of B, for the previously-attached check of A, whereupon when the car reaches the surface B receives the credit for thecar-load, this fraud usually being perpetrated during rest-hours, as at night. The fact of the substitution is not ob vious upon viewing the car, for the reason that the check is covered by the contents of the car and is invisible, and therefore A, having left a full car in the mine at the close of workinghours on one day, does not discover vthe mine after having previously left a filled car can by a glance ascertain whether his check is still'in'place as when he left the car. A further object of the invention is to provide a check-holder of such a construction that a check cannot be concealed by a second check introduced thereinto.

Further objects and advantages of this in vention will appearin the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings,-Figure 1 is' a View of a check-holder constructed in accordance with my invention applied in the operative position to a mine-car, the latter being in its normal or upright position. 2 is a view of the holder in the position which it occupies when the car is tipped. Fig. 3 is a view of the holder with its face-plate partlybrohen away to discover the channels and receptacles for the check. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail sections taken, respectively, in the planes indicated by the lines 4 at'and 5 5 of Fig. 3 through the removal-seat of the holder. Fig. 6 is a section taken upon a" plane indicated by the line 6 6 of Fig. 3 through the disclosure-seat of the holder. Fig. 7 is a detail 7 view of a check such as those ordinarily employed in connection withmine-cars. Fig. 8 is a perspective viewof theholder detached from the car.

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7 V I "arr inspection apart 1? :let ints a' -smtab opening in the front wall of said seat, as in the front or face plate 10, and the depth of the channel is such as to correspond 40 approximately with the thickness of the disk,

whereby a second check, subsequently introduced into the channel, may not pass between the first check and the inspection pane or opening, but will strike against the 5 first check, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3, and will there be held out of view through the inspection-opening. The check is prevented from dropping into the removalseat 17 or from gaining access to the inletchannel 16 by a deflector 20, which projects inwardly between the upper end of the channel portion 12 and thecommunicating end of the outlet-channel 16, the extremity of said deflector 20 overhanging the point 21, which separates the channel portion 12 from the outlet-channel 16 at the lower side; but when the car is tilted to discharge its contents the lower wall of the channel portion 12, leading from the disclosure-seat to the outlet-channel 16, is inclined downwardly toward the latter, as indicated in Fig. 2, thereby causing the check to traverse said lower wall of the channel portion 12 and pass into the outlet-channel, which in turn is traversed until the check reaches a position in the removal-seat 17. The front wall or face-plate an. d n'ed po v .h" forward -imam; a second tio nwardlyrandontwardlyincltnm' aipperz and cwcr: parties 2 viiici'rz terminates the ,isclo et 26 313 'preferahi y heveledaads;

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hcld'er toeeeupy a -poi diof the iremavai seat or re d intothe olden ntedi by {the pond approxizinat 5 lent substitution of checks, as in the old practice, is prevented by an apparatus having the essential features of the holder herein disclosed.

To exclude dust from the material of the holder, I preferably provide its inlet-opening 13 with a movable cap or cover 25, pivotally mounted and providedwith front and rear flanges to close down over the upper edges of the front and rear plates constituting the easing or receptacle.

It will be understood, furthermore, that while in the drawings I have illustrated a simple form of holder adapted to be manufactured at a comparatively small cost the exterior contour and even the relative arrangement of the channels may be modified, provided the relation is such as to guide a check when the holder is in its upright or normal position to an initial or disclosure seat or pocket, where it must remain in opposi-.

artin from the s irit or sacrificin an of the advantages of the invention.

Having described my invention, what I of the casing or receptacle is provided with a claim isof; the removai seakbeing 2 removal V,

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o the i isihief p i. A mine-car having an attached checkholder provided with a check-seat, from which a check may be dislodged by the movement of the car to a discharging position, and having means for preventing dislodgment when the car is in its normal position, substantially as specified.

2. A tally-check holder for'tiltin g receptacles; having a depressed check-seat accessible to a check when the holder is in its normal position, and from which a check may be dislodged when the holder is in a tilted position, and having means for preventing removal of the check when the holder is in its normal position, substantially as specified.

3. A tilting check-holder for the purpose named, having a check-seat with which communicates a sinuous inlet-channel, to guide a check to said seat when the holder is in its normal position, and an outlet-channel, accessible to the check when the holder is in a tilted position, substantially as specified.

4. A tilting check holder for mine cars, having a check-seat with which communicates a downwardly-accessible sinuous inletchannel, to guide a check to said seat when the holder is in its normal position, and an outlet-channel, accessible to the check when the holder is in a tilted position, and a movable cover normally closing the inlet-channel, substan tially as specified.

5. A check-holder for the purpose named, having an interiorly-visible check-seatwith which communicate channels to guide a check to and from said check-seat, respectively, when the holder is in different positions and having means for preventing removal of a check when the holder is in one position, substantially as specified.

6. A check-holder for the purpose named, having a check-seatwith which communicate inlet and outlet channels, for guiding a check to and from the check-seat when the holder is respectively in different positions, said outlet-channel terminating in a removal-seat from which a check may be displaced and which is constructed to temporarily hold the same, substantially as specified.

'Z. A check-holder for the purpose named, having a check-seat with which communicate inlet and outlet channels, for guiding a check to and from the check-seat when the holder is respectively in different positions, said outlet-channel terminating in a removal-seat in an exposed wall of which is formed a fingerslot, substantially as specified.

8. A check-holder for the purpose named, having a check-seat with which communicate inlet and outlet channels, for guiding a check to and from the check-seat, when the holder is respectively in different positions, said outlet-channel terminating in a removal-seat in an exposed wall of which is formed a fingerslot, and in the floor of which is formed a depression for facilitating the tilting of a check, substantially as specified.

9. A check-holder for the purpose named, having a check-seat and communicating inlet and outlet channels, for guiding a check to and from said seat when the holder is re-. spectively in difierent positions, the opposite walls of the inlet-channel being extended inwardly to form deflecting-points, substantially as specified.

10. A check-holder for the purpose named, having an inaccessible check-seat and communicating terminally open inlet and outlet channels, for guiding a check to and from said'seat when the holder is respectively in different positions, the inlet-channel having communicating portions inclined in different directions to cause a check passing to the check-seat, to traverse a sinuous path and constituting means for preventing removal of the check through the inlet-channel, substantially as specified.

11. The combination with a mine-car, of an attached check-holder, and a communicating outlet-channel accessible to a seated check when the car is in an adjusted position, and means for preventing removal of the check when the car is in its normal position, substantially as specified.

12. The combination with a mine-car, of an attached holder having a check-seat visible through an inspection-opening through which a seated check cannot be removed, and inlet and outlet channels for guiding a check to and from said seat, respectively, when the car is in its normal and tilted positions, sub-' stantially as specified.

. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

, CHARLES R. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

o J. D. CLAY, Jr.,'

R. O. CARICO.

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